Pocket for garments



Nov. 27, 1934. HElLE 1,982,100

POCKET FOR GARMENTS Filed Nov. 18, 1933 Patented Nov. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Manufacturing Company,

Kentucky a corporation of Application November 18, 1933, Serial N 0. 698,606

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to improvements in pockets for garments which are particularly applicable for use as breast pockets for such garments as shirts or blouses. When pencils or other similar shaped objects are placed in a pocket much too large for them, it is usually difiicult to readily get them and they may easily become lost out of such a large pocket. I am aware that special pockets have heretofore been provided for special uses, such as for receiving pencils or watches or other articles.

My present invention has for its object the provision of a pocket which will not only be suitable for conventional uses and have a conventional appearance, but will also be provided with facilities for the special receipt of a pencil, a package of cigarettes or watch, and another object or tool of a greater length than could normally be accommodated by the pocket, which facilities are wholly concealed when not in use and which facilities do not in any way interfere with the normal use of the conventional pocket.

I have attained the foregoing objects and results by means of the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a view of a shirt provided with pockets embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the flap or cover for the normal pocket detached from the shirt but attached to the curtain or apron which forms the front of the special concealed compartments.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the parts of the structure shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the assembled relation of the conventional pocket with the flap or cover therefor and the curtain from which the concealed compartments are fabricated; and

Fig. 5 is a horizontal, sectional view through the garment, the curtain and the conventional pocket in final assembled relation.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the respective views.

At the top edge of the pocket flap or cover 6 is secured by one or more lines of stitching 7 an apron or curtain piece 8. The curtain piece 8 extends in breadth from a corner 9 of the flap or cover piece to a point 10 a suitable distance from the opposite corner 11 of the flap or cover piece. The flap or cover, together with the apron or curtain piece, is then tacked to the body 12 of the garment at spaced intervals 13. The side edge 14 and bottom edge 14a is then sewed to the body of the garment 12 and an additional vertical row of stitching 1'7 is provided below one of the intermediate tacked portions 13. The normal pocket piece 15 is then placed a suitable distance under the flap or cover 6 and sewed around its bottom and side edges to the body of the garment so that the side 16 of the curtain or 0 apron, not hitherto sewed, will register with and be sewed to the garment when the registering edge of the normal pocket is sewed thereto. This arrangement provides behind the normal pocket with access thereto from above the flap 6 a com- 5 partment 18 suitable for a pencil and a compartment 19 particularly suitable for the receipt of a package of cigarettes or watch or other such articles. Also a longer tool than the normal pocket could otherwise hold may be inserted therein from above the flap between the tacked portions at the inner edge of the curtain and the extended end of the flap. The flap is preferably provided with a button-hole 20 which co-operates with a button 21 sewed to the normal pocket piece 15 in a usual and conventional manner.

I have also found it desirable to provide the normal pocket piece 15 with a. pair of vertical inverted box plaits 22 which Will permit it to bellows out when both the concealed and normal 30 pocket compartments are employed.

As I have heretofore described and illustrated I am able to secure a neat and attractive pocket for a shirt or blouse which, without in any way limiting the normal usefulness of the pocket, 5 provides desirable special facilities which render the pocket much more handy and convenient.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A garment pocket comprising a flap or cover, a curtain piece stitched to said flap or cover and extending short of one end thereof, said flap or cover and curtain piece being tacked to the body of the garment at spaced intervals along their united edge, said curtain piece being sewed to the body of the garment along its bottom and vertical edges and having an additional row of vertical stitches between the curtain piece and the body of the garment at one of the intermediate tacked portions, and a conventional pocket piece with which said flap or cover co-operates superimposed above said curtain and sewed to the body of said garment whereby access to the compartments formed by said curtain is had above said flap and access to the normal pocket is had below said flap and from above said flap beyond the end thereof which extends beyond said curtain.

HARRIET HEILE. 

